Life-threatening viral disease in a novel form of autosomal recessive IFNAR2 deficiency in the Arctic

CJA Duncan, MK Skouboe, S Howarth… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Type I interferons (IFN-I) play a critical role in human antiviral immunity, as demonstrated by
the exceptionally rare deleterious variants of IFNAR1 or IFNAR2. We investigated five …

Enhanced inhibition of MHC-I expression by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants

M Moriyama, C Lucas, VS Monteiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs)
possess mutations that confer resistance to neutralizing antibodies within the Spike protein …

Causal effect of COVID‐19 on Alzheimer's disease: a Mendelian randomization study

A Baranova, H Cao, F Zhang - Journal of medical virology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It was reported that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
infection may cause brain size reduction and cognitive decline. Whether COVID‐19 may …

Clinical implications of host genetic variation and susceptibility to severe or critical COVID-19

CI van der Made, MG Netea, FL van der Veerdonk… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, important insights
have been gained into virus biology and the host factors that modulate the human immune …

Meta-analysis fine-mapping is often miscalibrated at single-variant resolution

M Kanai, R Elzur, W Zhou, KHH Wu, H Rasheed… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Meta-analysis is pervasively used to combine multiple genome-wide association studies
(GWASs). Fine-mapping of meta-analysis studies is typically performed as in a single-cohort …

Single-cell analyses and host genetics highlight the role of innate immune cells in COVID-19 severity

R Edahiro, Y Shirai, Y Takeshima, S Sakakibara… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanisms underpinning the dysfunctional immune response in severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 infection are elusive. We analyzed single-cell transcriptomes and T …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of human genetic variants contributing to COVID-19 susceptibility and severity

K Gupta, G Kaur, T Pathak, I Banerjee - Gene, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned global health crisis of unprecedented magnitude,
claiming millions of lives and pushing healthcare systems in many countries to the brink …

COVID-19 annual update: a narrative review

M Biancolella, VL Colona, L Luzzatto, JL Watt… - Human genomics, 2023 - Springer
Three and a half years after the pandemic outbreak, now that WHO has formally declared
that the emergency is over, COVID-19 is still a significant global issue. Here, we focus on …

A phenome‐wide investigation of risk factors for severe COVID‐19

A Baranova, H Cao, S Teng… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the continued spread of COVID‐19 globally, it is crucial to identify the potential risk or
protective factors associated with COVID‐19. Here, we performed genetic correlation …

Detailed stratified GWAS analysis for severe COVID-19 in four European populations

F Degenhardt, D Ellinghaus, S Juzenas… - Human molecular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Given the highly variable clinical phenotype of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a
deeper analysis of the host genetic contribution to severe COVID-19 is important to improve …